CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

• Joanna Biggs
• Peter Campbell
• Anne Carson
• Jenny Diski
• Paul Driver
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• Mark Ford
• Robert Irwin
• Chalmers Johnson
• James Meek
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Hugh Pennington
• William Poole
• Martin Puchner
• Barbara Taylor
• Thant Myint-U
• Marina Warner
• Bee Wilson

Contents

• James Meek

  • The Looming Tower: Al-Qaida’s Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

• Letters
  Thomas Crow, Nicholas Penny, John Bossy, Edward Pearce, Alasdair Raffe, Mark Thompson, Tanja Jeffreys

• Chalmers Johnson

  • Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Rendition Programme by Stephen Grey

• Barbara Taylor

  • The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s by John Barrell

• Robert Irwin

  • Trickster Travels: A 16th-Century Muslim between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis

• Jenny Diski
  Jowls are available: ‘Second Life’

• Mark Ford
  Two Poems

• William Poole

  • Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity by Gordon Teskey

• Paul Driver

  • Stravinsky: The Second Exile – France and America 1934-71 by Stephen Walsh
  • Down a Path of Wonder: Memoirs of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and Other Cultural Figures by Robert Craft

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: malingering trolley dollies

• Martin Puchner

  • Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theatre, Philosophy by Toril Moi

• Hugh Pennington
  Big Biology: DNA sequencing

• Bee Wilson

  • Nicole Kidman by David Thomson

• Anne Carson
  Poem: ‘Alive That Time’

• Marina Warner

  • Enigmas and Riddles in Literature by Eleanor Cook

• Joanna Biggs

  • The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger

• Thant Myint-U
  What to do about Burma: Are we getting it wrong?

• Peter Campbell
  At Tate Britain: the art of protest

• Sheila Fitzpatrick
  Diary remembers her father